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Catamaran training comes with built-in fun!
WHORTONSVILLE – Marine Craft marina recently hosted what organizers described as ‘Antares University.’ The multi-day event and excursion is designed for new owners of an Antares Catamaran to learn boat handling skills as well as the boat systems. An elaborate wrap-up came on Labor Day,…
State Treasurer lambastes hospitals’ obscene pricing
RALEIGH – North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell released a report this week that shows extreme variations in hospital prices, huge price markups from Medicare rates, and widespread failures in price transparency. Trained as a certified public accountant, Folwell pulled no punches in a Tuesday…
Peletier man faces Second Degree Murder; Death by Distribution Charges
On 09/18/2023, Carteret County deputies arrested William Blake Perkins, 31, of Collins Rhue Rd, Peletier following the January 2023 overdose death of Joshua Adams of Cedar Point. Perkins was identified by detectives as having sold the methamphetamines laced with fentanyl that caused the death of…
Vandemere man arrested for drugs following three-month investigation
On Friday, September 1, 2023, as part of an ongoing narcotics enforcement operation, The Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant on the residence of Anthony Cordell Curtis of Vandemere, NC following a three-month investigation related to the sale and distribution of illegal narcotics…
Feasibility Study for Bridge? Two readers have their say!
——— PRO ——— By Vicki Carlisle I’ve lived in this county all of my life, and I remember a time back in the late 60s or maybe early 70s (I think) that bridging the Neuse was a source of contention for citizens. I remember thinking…
DOT Officials Love ‘Roundabouts’
Four planned for five-mile stretch in James City NEW BERN – A new traffic pattern will be implemented later this week as part of the improvements to U.S. 70 and surrounding roadways in James City. On Friday afternoon, Sept. 8, the project’s first roundabout will open to traffic…
Pamlico County man arrested on kidnapping and DVPO violation charges
On Saturday, September 2, 2023, the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center received a 911 call about a possible kidnapping and domestic violence situation from a concerned citizen at convenience store in Grantsboro, NC. When Deputies arrived on scene, they were unable to locate anyone….
Newport man faces drug charges
Detectives with the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office and the Morehead City Police Department arrested Perry Nordean Fisher Jr, 38, of 446 Nine Foot Rd, Newport following a month-long drug investigation. On 08/29/2023 a traffic stop was conducted on Fisher following a controlled purchase of trafficking…
LETTER TO CONGRESSMAN GREG MURPHY — Power grid cannot support Electric Vehicles
Michael Cole | Chocowinity, NC Recently, Rep. Murphy asked for feedback from his constituents about the Biden Administration’s proposed highly restrictive emission standards for gas powered vehicles. Here is one response from Michael Cole of Chocowinity: This is without a doubt one of the dumbest…
Traveling Replica on Display — First sub to sink an enemy vessel
The H.L. Hunley Traveling Exhibit arrives at New Bern’s Union Point Park for a Sept. 2 & 3 showing. The first combat submarine in history to sink an enemy warship, the Civil War-era Hunley was constructed in Mobile, Alabama in 1863 and shipped to Charleston,…
Officials Butt Heads Over Subsidized Housing
BAYBORO – Tempers were flying Monday night, Aug. 21. The lure of millions in federal money (which could flow thru Pamlico County coffers into the hands of an apartment-complex developer) proved too tempting to resist for four Pamlico County Commissioners, as three skeptics on the…
